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Rossman a delightful rant against uncancellable subscriptions (www.youtube.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rossman is on form. A delightful rant about his experiences with gyms. And his promotion of privacy.com and their virtual credit card numbers that he can cancel remotely.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

While that's certainly a solution that'll work against these abusive companies, that's technically still fraud. If they bother to come after you after not paying, you can get into trouble. I would reserve withholding payment only for companies that don't let you cancel your subscription according to local law just in case they do take you to small claims court.

You don't want to find out about a debt that's been resold to various debt traders and collections agencies ten years down the line, especially once every party thst tries to claim the debt has added their own fees on top.